 Good morning from Washington, D.C. Good afternoon to everyone in Benghie. Good afternoon from Washington. And good afternoon to you in Benghie. My name is Arsalan Suleiman and I work at the United States State Department as the deputy envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. I'm Arsalan Suleiman. I work here at the State Department. And I'm the special envoy in June of the Department of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. I want to thank all of you for participating in today's panel. We are very happy to see all of you in Benghie. We want to thank you all for having accepted to participate in this round table. We are very happy to be able to meet you in Benghie. The purpose of this panel is to recognize the important work that religious leaders in Benghie are doing to work for peace. As well as to link them and introduce them to religious leaders in the United States who are doing similar work and who are hopefully they want to help the religious leaders in Benghie do their work. So I'm going to be moderating the panel and I will call on the panelists at different times for their input and for remarks. As you can hear, Fommas is helping us with simultaneous translation between French and English. From the Washington D.C. side, the panelists include Rashad Hussein, who is President Obama's special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. To my immediate left, I have Stephen Hilbert, who works for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in the Office of International Justice and Peace. And at the end of the table, we have Imam Hamid Majid, who is the President of the Islamic Society of North America, the largest organization of Muslims in North America. And he is also the Imam of the Adams Center in Virginia. From Benghie, we have His Grace Diodone Nazapalinga, the Archbishop of Benghie. We have Reverend Nikola Ger Koyame, the President of the Evangelical Association. We have Imam Omar Kabineh Layama, President of the National Islamic Association. And we have Madame Catherine Samapanza, the Mayor of Benghie. As we start the panel, I would like to call on Imam Majid to have a short introductory prayer from the United States. And afterwards, I'm going to call on the Archbishop to also have a short introductory prayer. I greet you with a greeting of peace. As God Almighty to help us as we gather here today with our brothers and sisters in the Republic of Central African Republic to look into how can we get together at the people of faith to overcome the difficult time that this beautiful country is going through and unite our heart to bring together people of faith, Christians and Muslims because the Prophet Muhammad is the messenger of mercy and Jesus is the messenger of love and two beautiful religions can come together and create harmony in this country. My God, Almighty help us as we gather today to be able to help you in this difficult time. In Benghie, I hope we will be able to work and come to help and give our competition to the people of Central Africa to do this unity work of faith because the Prophet Muhammad is the messenger of mercy and Jesus is the prophet of love. Why do I think that the two religions can come together to work together in favor of this mission for the faith? Thank you, Imam Majid. Your grace Archbishop Nazapalinga, could I call on you to have a short introductory prayer as well? In the name of the Lord, the God of heaven and earth. We in the Central African Republic, the drums and drums, we go to this land, we go to this land, we go to this land, we go to this land, we go to this land, we go to this land, we go to this land, and all of us who live here, our brothers and sisters, who shed light on our hearts. So what's the path of acceptance, the path of forgiveness, the path of forgiveness in order that we in our country all together in faith will be able to accept others as they are our brothers, as Jesus our Lord did so. Amen. Thank you, Archbishop. A nouveau remercion. To begin the panel discussion, I would like to call on Special Envoy Rashad Hussain to make some remarks. Special Envoy Hussain is the Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. And in his work, he also is one of the leading US officials who engages with religious leaders on a range of issues, including on promoting peace and reconciliation. I would first like to ask Mr. Hussain to take the floor, who is the Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. And in his work, he deals with a number of important issues on religious and confessional issues. Thank you, Hussain. Thank you. Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you all. Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you all. Thank you so much to the religious leaders from the Central African Republic for joining us today for this important conversation. It's really wonderful to see you. And I hope that we'll have a chance to meet in person soon. Discussions like the one that we're having today are ones that I know that you've been having almost every day in your country. And they serve as an example of cooperation and peaceful coexistence that is actually a model for all of us. My role as the Special Envoy to the OIC is to deepen and expand our partnerships with Muslim communities around the world. We'll have the. Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you all. Thank you so much to the religious leaders from the Central African Republic for joining us to participate in this important discussion today. It's really wonderful to see you. And I hope that we'll have a chance to meet in person soon. Discussions like the one that we're having this morning are ones that I've been having almost every day. And they are examples of the cooperation and peaceful coexistence that is a model for all of us. Imam Majid, who you have heard from, you heard the prayer from, is one of the leaders of the Muslim community here in the United States, which is a community of about 7 million people. Imam Majid, who just came to take the floor, is one of the leaders, one of the leaders of the Muslim community in the United States, which has about 7 million believers. It's a dynamic community of Muslims from nearly every country in the world, and a community that has really excelled in all areas of American life. I think most Muslims would tell you that this success has been possible not despite of, but because of the country's diversity and the positive relations we have had here with people of all faiths. There's a famous verse in the Quran, which states, And roughly translated as, Oh mankind, we have indeed created you for male and female and made you people and tribes that you may know one another. This is what we have tried to do, And we've definitely had to work at it in the United States. We work at it from a young age as school children, as we study together and play sports together. We work together in the university setting and our places of employment. We run businesses together and serve our communities together in projects across our cities. It's not uncommon to see Muslim speakers at churches on Sundays and Christian guests at Christian guests that are mosques. The Friday prayer, which I attend, actually occurs in a church building that the Christian community here opens for Muslims on Fridays. As a part of our cooperation, we have also tried to come together to assist each other in times of difficulty. Based on the principle of qounu qawwami nabilqisti shuhada ala Allahi wala wa ala anfusikum, stand for justice even if it's against yourself or parents or relatives. Our communities have worked to stand for justice when the rights of others are threatened. So you hear Imam Majib, for example, speak out when Christians and people of other faiths are mistreated in Muslim countries. And you hear from our Christian community that the rights of Muslims are violated. There's of course still much work to be done, but what has been very powerful here is that we've had outstanding religious leaders like yourselves keep our communities on track. You are the ones that have helped efforts to bring peace by urging followers to respect their faiths, by respecting the rights of others even in difficult times. And the United States recognizes and greatly appreciates your efforts in promoting peace in the Central African Republic. In addition to providing humanitarian assistance and support for the security efforts in the Central African Republic, we are also promoting conflict mitigation and reconciliation efforts. President Obama's message to the people of the Central African Republic last month focused on reconciliation, and Ambassador Samantha Power also highlighted this message during her trip to your country. Your calls for peace and reconciliation are vital and powerful in bringing peace and stability back to the Central African Republic. And along with the religious leaders here in the United States, we stand with you at this challenging time. Your calls for peace and reconciliation are vital and powerful in bringing peace and stability back to the Central African Republic. And along with the religious leaders here in the United States, we stand with you at this challenging time. Thank you so much again for all of your efforts, your statements, your example, and your leadership. I look forward to the discussion today on how we can work together to continue to address the challenges in our communities. Thank you Special Envoy Hussain. Here in the United States, we've been reading with great interest the heroic and inspiring work of religious leaders in the Central African Republic. We would love to hear directly from the religious leaders about the situation in the Central African Republic, their efforts, and how religious leaders in the United States can help to support their efforts. We would like to hear from all the panelists, so whomever wants to go first from Bangui, please. Here we are. We wish all the panelists from Bangui can speak. So if anyone wants to go first, if anyone wants to speak first, please. So don't hesitate. I am Reverend Nicola Gereko-Amebangu. I am Reverend Nicola. I am a member of the Evangelical Movement of Central Africa. I am a member of the multi-faith platform. I would like to thank the United States for your concern about our situation in the Central African Republic. Since the beginning of the crisis in our country when the Seleka Movement reached the city of Bangui, and at the time the government sent out appeals, the government sent out appeals. The appeal was sent out to religious leaders to work towards appeasement and the Archbishop, the Imam and myself got together to strengthen the situation in which we all work together to try to stem the violence. And as you have been following the situation very closely, you do know that the situation is of great concern right now. And as you know, there's killings on both sides. There are killings perpetrated by the members of the Seleka and there's also killings being committed by the anti-Ibalaka movement. I would like to bring this... I wanted to make this clarification because oftentimes it's being portrayed as an interfaith or inter-religious conflict, but I've never seen Muslims call upon Seleka. And we religious leaders have never said that this is a Christian country. So what we're trying to do to our flock and to our parishioners is to explain to them that this conflict is not a religious conflict, that this is fundamentally a political conflict. So what can we hope and what can we expect from the United States? So what we would be seeking your assistance with is to call upon the parties to begin negotiations in order to bring an end to the conflict. Up until now, it was believed that only France had the capacity to have... leverage on the parties, on all the parties in order to begin negotiations. And perhaps I'll give the phone out to one of my colleagues. I would like to thank you for organizing this get-together. As my colleague stated, our current situation has been long-standing and in terms of our work, we did a lot of work upstream beforehand. So we traveled throughout the country to lay the groundwork. And it's in this way that we could strengthen our work because... Our religions preach love and brotherhood. And this is the work that we are doing amongst the youth alongside with the imams to spread this message to calm down these men, to quell the fears, to teach their brotherhood. And we also work with women of faith because women play an important role in our religion. We've organized press conferences, meetings, so people can speak and listen to the conversation to maintain the social cohesion of the country and all of this on behalf of peace. So these are the types of activities that we are conducting and plan on continuing. I would like to answer your third question. I think we can also discuss this issue further. Thank you. I am Archbishop Zappalinga. I would like to thank the U.S. government for all of the efforts that you are carrying out to bring back peace to our country. I would like to express my thanks to all who are working on a behalf. Everybody can provide his own contribution towards peace and reconciliation in the Central African Republic. May the Lord bless you. The events that we experienced have demonstrated that some people have tried to exclude others and they have sought to create divisions. The results stemming from impunity in our country. Some of you have mentioned the fact that people have been killed, executing, that there have been lootings. And when there is a country where there is no law, no justice, this can lead to anarchy. And we were on the verge of falling into anarchy and we must have asked ourselves what kind of world are we living in. We have had outbreaks of hatred and some people prepared themselves. And you saw the results of that everywhere. We lost all sense of reason and fell into irrationality. After everything that we experienced, we now hope that the United States will be able to assist us. The French are here with Sangaris. Miska is here. But in light of their limitations, you must understand that the Central African Republic is a very large country, more than 600,000 square kilometers. And the numbers of troops that have been announced appear to be quite insufficient. We feel that this situation calls for an intervention from the United Nations. This would allow the presence of professional staff that would help the population to secure the situation. The state no longer exists. Everything has to be reorganized. And we must organize elections to ensure that whatever may happen, that we have transparency. We also hope the United States will be able to help us with the humanitarian project. Since 1997, I think USAID has left the country. We now believe that the time has come to return to help us in our recovery process. We also hope that the United States will help us with our communities. For example, do advocacy work and do reconciliation work to ensure that everybody accepts one another. And we already wish to thank you in advance for everything that you are doing and for everything that you will be doing in the future. Good morning. I would like to associate myself with the statements of my colleagues and thank the US government in its attempt to remedy the situation of the populations in the Central African Republic. I am the mayor of the city of Bangui. I am the mayor of a city where operations on the ground are very important. I am also the chairwoman of the association of mayors of the Central African Republic. Which means that the situation of the city of Bangui but of all towns and communities in the Central African Republic is of concern and interest to me. The outbreaks of violence that we have seen for more than a year now have been witnessed in various communities in the country before they reached Bangui. This is to say that the entire population has greatly suffered. These populations are experiencing dramatic humanitarian situations. Most communities have been affected by the crisis. Many local authorities have basically abdicated their area of jurisdiction and abandoning the populations to their fate. And this means that all of their dwellings have been looted. And the government is no longer capable of providing basic services. We have problems with water, electricity, hygiene, water treatment, health care problems and also we have food security problems. There are more than 300,000 displaced people in the various communities. The populations are living under horrible conditions. So we need immediate and urgent humanitarian relief. The humanitarian aid workers on the ground are doing what they can or trying to help with immediate problems but not all needs are being met. So we need support to provide urgent relief to these displaced populations. In addition to this emergency, we need to work together to heal the social divide, the social fracture that opened up after these events. That is the role of local government that has to be done towards the populations. We have come up with some strategies and the local governments reached out to the populations trying to provide answers to the populations' questions. They are trying to provide moral support to the populations to provide answers to these populations. Thank you so much for all of those remarks and I just want to repeat again that we are very inspired and impressed by the heroic work that you are doing there to promote peace and reconciliation. We appreciate the recommendations that you have made for increased assistance from the United States. I would like to ask that you continue to think about what the United States and what religious leaders in particular can do to support your work. And now I am going to turn to Imam Majid and Stephen Hilbert to discuss some of the reactions from the Muslim community in the Catholic community in the United States and some of the efforts that they have been taking. And now I am going to give the floor to Imam and Stephen Hilbert to talk about the efforts that were made in the United States by the Muslim and Catholic communities. First I would like to say my heart goes to those who lost loved ones in this conflict. I really have shook me when I saw the amount of conflict in people's lives. But with people like you in this room I have now some hope. You will overcome this. And we are here to help you overcome it. The will of God. As an Imam I do believe that the Muslim community in America with the Muslim community and the people of faith in the Central African Republic can work together. By sharing our experience, how we overcome issues even in the United States and our effort to help bring peace and harmony with people of other faith. We have great relationship with Muslim scholars around the world. Also we can seek their help in addressing any issue that may be needed. Specifically in the neighboring countries whether Chad or Sudan. And we can share our experience of how we train Imams for example in the issue of Darfur. I myself spent a few days there twice training Imam the issue of conflict and how to overcome the difficulties. We have been able to talk about the training that we have provided to Imams for example in Darfur. And we have been able to talk about the methods and approaches that we have followed to help them overcome the conflicts. We can help also to engage the youth because we have also experience here by training youth leaders in the issue of conflict. I am very happy to hear that there is a form of women in this issue. I am also very happy to learn that women actively participate in the resolution of these problems. I see that women play an important role in the country to restore confidence. If you allow me I would like to give you some suggestions and then listen to your reactions to these suggestions. Our mosque for example have been built two churches in Pakistan after it was burnt down by some members of that community. I heard that there are some mosques and churches being burnt down. And one of the processes that we built in the confidence at the health of the mosques and the mosques and the mosques and the mosques and the mosques and the mosques. And one of the processes that we built in the confidence at the health can come also through the healing by having the Christians and the Muslim rebuilding churches and mosques at the same time. And we can ask here in the United States different relief agencies, Muslims and Christians to work together on providing the help so that they know there is a gift from both communities. And therefore I am looking at it from three perspectives, help, healing and hope. I would like to tell you that in America 29 religious organizations have come together and built a coalition to help Muslim communities. And I would like to tell you that in America 29 religious organizations have come together and built a coalition to help Muslim communities. I would like to tell you that in America 29 religious organizations have come together and built a coalition to help Muslims in difficult times in the United States. I would like to tell you that in America 29 religious organizations have come together and built a coalition to help Muslim communities. Whatever we can do to help in this regard, I would be very happy to, whether the delegation from the interfaith community coming to visit you or we continue engaging with you. We have very close working relationship with the Catholic community for many years. And therefore whatever we can do together, I think we will be very happy. I pray that our effort will be perfect. Thank you very much, Steve. I have spent many years in Africa, especially in francophone. I am happy to be with you today through this wonderful technology. And one day I hope to meet you in person. I am taking the liberty to speak to you directly in French given the fact that I spent many years in French speaking Africa. And I do hope that one day I will be able to meet with you in person. I would like to join first on the topic of the imam, on what concerns those who have lost their lives, who have lost their goods, by sharing the pain of these people and by sharing also your pain. And I would like to associate myself with the statement of the imam who expressed his solidarity for the people who have lost their lives and goods in this conflict. In the name of the Committee and the Bureau for Justice and International Peace and in my personal name, I express my feelings of solidarity and fraternity during these difficult times that you have gone through. On behalf of the Committee and on behalf of myself, I would like to express my solidarity and my concern for this difficult period that you are undergoing. Rest assured you are not abandoned, you are not alone in this moment of sorrow that your population is experiencing. Since the beginning of the crisis we have been following the events in Central Africa with a sense of sorrow. But at the same time we want to recognize your lovable efforts to comfort those who are in debt or who have lost everything during the violent attacks of these last months. But at the same time we want to applaud all of the efforts that you have been conducting to those people who have lost loved ones who are in mourning and as well towards people who have lost their property during this violent crisis. We want your initiatives to convince people to resist the peace of violence and to promote dialogue, peace and reconciliation. We applaud your efforts to urge people to resist this temptation, this call to violence and we applaud your efforts on behalf of peace and reconciliation and love. And we also support your calls towards Central African leaders and to the international community. And precisely to support the efforts of Play-Doyance, organized by the Catholic Church with all its Muslim and Christian partners to promote peace and dialogue. Precisely one of the goals of our Committee for International Peace and Justice is to promote all of our advocacy work towards people of faith, Christians and Muslims. As part of these initiatives we work closely with the Catholic Relief Services which are also working with you. And it's in this context that we have done work with the Church in Central Africa. In July 2013, the President of our Committee, Monsignor Richard Petz and I, met with the Vice President of the Catholic Conference of Central Africans, Monsignor Nestor Desiree Nongo. For example, in July 2013, the Chairman of our Committee, Monsignor Petz, met together with Monsignor Nongo. We listened with great interest to his summary of the situation and of all of the work done by the Church. And for example, in September, Monsignor Nongo came to the United States accompanied by delegation of members of the Social Society in order to meet officials from the United Nations and the United States. During his stay, I was able to organize several meetings for him with members of the House and the Senate, including here at the State Department with Mr. David Brown, who I believe you have met. And in November of 2013, Monsignor Nongo came back to the United States in order to testify before Congress to talk about the worrisome situation in Central Africa. His very insightful testimony made it possible for members of Congress to get a much better understanding of the situation in your country. The members of the Committee congratulated and encouraged the actions of the Church and its partners, Christians and Muslims. And finally, in December of last year, the Sub-Committee on South Africa of the Senate, this time, invited the members of Congress to present an official statement on the situation in Central Africa. And I'm happy to say that alongside with these Catholic Relief Services, we helped the translation and the communication of this important statement. Thanks to all of these efforts, it is clear that religious leaders have worked very hard on behalf of peace and reconciliation. You are all truly peace builders and blessed children of God. And our conference is ready to support you and stand by your side throughout this crisis. We are ready to listen to your ideas to give greater depth and strength to our cooperation, of course, acknowledging our limited resources. Allow me just to say one word about the Catholic Relief Services, which is one of our partners. The Catholic Relief Services were created by the American Catholic Church in 1943. And CRS began working in the Central African Republic in 1999. And it's thanks to CRS Cameroon that I was working with at the time and it was thanks to them that I myself was able to engage in activities in the Central African Republic. Thanks to support from the US government, the Catholic Relief Services is providing food aid to over 10,000 people in the district of Lobay. The Catholic Relief Services has provided support to populations within religious, within churches, compounds. CRS, alongside with USID, is engaged in peace building projects to rebuild this peace, which has always existed amongst the various religious communities in your country. I do know that CRS is working with the religious leaders and with the youth in order to develop projects to get rid of this mistrust, to attenuate this mistrust that does exist amongst the populations. And this mistrust which was triggered by the crisis and the violence. And I do know that CRS is proud of its work and of its achievements. CRS would like to thank the evangelical, the Catholic and Muslim communities for the support that you provided us. And we hope to maintain or even expand our activities in the future. So to conclude, dear brothers and sisters, we seek to encourage you. We hope you will succeed in the future and that the Lord may bless you with your efforts and protect you from evil. Thank you, Stephen. I'd now like to ask the participants in Bangui if they had any reactions to some of these suggestions made by Imam Majid and Stephen Hilbert, including some of the suggestions like cooperatively rebuilding houses of worship or perhaps having a delegation of religious leaders from the United States to visit your country perhaps later this year. We'd be very interested in your reactions to those or other suggestions you may have. Now I would like to know if Bangui, if you have any comments or reflections to make in relation to the suggestions made by the participants in the panel, for example, this possibility that has been evoked, to work collaboratively in the reconstruction of the Church or for example the delivery of a delegation, do you have any reactions or comments to make in relation to the various suggestions made by the participants in the panel here in Washington? Yes, I'm back again, Reverend Nicola Greco-Amigwangu. The Bible says two is better than one. We'll be happy extremely happy to host a delegation from the United States in order to help us with our activities on the ground. We must understand that we are not alone in Central Africa. They must understand that they do have brothers and sisters elsewhere in the world. And that's how we will prove, we will demonstrate the solidarity of faith. As far as I'm concerned, I will take it upon myself to immediately make this announcement towards my evangelical brethren that our Christian brothers and Muslims from the United States will come to us to encourage us, not only to bring us material help, but also to bring us moral and spiritual help. Brothers and sisters from the United States, Christian and Muslim will reach out to us not only to provide material assistance, but also moral support and moral aid. We have been encouraged by your statements. And that with other brothers and sisters, we will continue our efforts to find peace. And with our brothers and sisters, we will unite our efforts in order to restore this peace and stability that have been lost. And already we would like to extend our welcome to you. This is Imam Omar Kobinlayim. Thank you Imam and Mr. Hilber, who have really taken on the difficulties of all their first prayers. We also wish to thank the U.S. government that stands ready to rush to our aid. We also have in our hands, in relation to the need for reconciliation, to rebuild our trafficking, the problem of the formation of our anti-reconciliation animators. We also acknowledge the urgent need in light of the situation in Central Africa, the urgent need to provide training and education to our moderators in reconciliation work. We really hope that this project will implement as quickly as possible. We had something going on in November, but unfortunately, still as of now, nothing has started yet. We are hoping to receive some teaching materials to carry out this important project to very quickly engage in a national reconciliation. I do believe that my brothers of the United States have not forgotten us and they will provide us with this support for this educational work, and we'd like to thank you for that. I am the Archbishop of Bangui. I would like to express my gratitude in the form of a prayer, and I would like to thank you for having expressed your concern for the people of Central Africa. The efforts to be carried out in the future will actually be an enrichment for us. The experiences that you have had in the United States between Muslims and Christians will be able to show us the path to enlighten us. Sometimes, when we are born in the Kingdom, we also need a third person to help us get a little further. Let us not forget that Abraham was welcoming strangers who were passing by. He also welcomed the angels of God as part of our dream for a future Central African Republic. We want to create bridges, gateways, and these bridges will connect Muslims, Christians, people of other faiths who will be able to meet together and to gather together. For example, we had this dream where in the same school, Muslim children and Christian children could all study together and share the same school benches. Let us work to eradicate this mistrust that has become entrenched in our population and do it via education, peace, and development. And I think that Muslims and Christians must take on their responsibility, assume this responsibility towards the populations. Many people are waiting or expecting answers from us. Thanks to all the promises and the pledges that we have made. We hope that we will bring hope back to our brothers and sisters. Thank you very much for those statements and the beautiful vision Archbishop that you described. I can say from at least from my personal perspective, I went to a Catholic high school as well as a Catholic university. And I hope and pray that your vision for an interfaith education in the Central African Republic will come true. I want to ask Imam Majid or Stephen Hilber for any reactions from the statements that we received. I share your desires and your ideas and wishes. Thank you. I'm convinced that education and multi-faith schools are very good ideas. Being people of faith, as you noted, as human beings, we do need material support but we also need moral support. And I do believe that it is indeed the role of our religion, Christian, Catholic and Muslim to provide not only material support but also moral and spiritual support. I hope that this moral and spiritual support can change people's hearts, especially young people, to end this conflict and spread a country that is peaceful and prosperous. I would like first to say that I appreciate the effort being done by the religious leaders. And I salute this vision for peace. From our side here, I would like to say that from the Muslim community perspective, I would like to hear more maybe offline and the Imams and others and the Muslim community can provide us with the need of this material and the teaching of materials that we can provide for you. We have great Muslim scholars who have been working on this issue for a while, among them Sheikh Abdullah Mbaya, who is a big fluent French and maybe you are familiar with. There are a lot of Muslim intellectuals, including some who are totally Francophones, who have been working on these issues for a long time, who are quite aware of these issues. I think maybe we will have a conversation after this meeting to see how can we help also of reconciliation after bringing peace. Because we have been also working on the issue of violence and extremism for a while, a misuse of religion in the issue of conflict. I hope that we will be able to work together to help you. Thank you very much to all the participants, our esteemed guests in Bangui, our esteemed panelists here in the United States. I think we will definitely continue this conversation between the religious leaders and between the United States and the other representatives in Bangui. There are a number of very excellent ideas that were discussed here today, including the idea of a delegation, as well as support for education, reconciliation and peace building efforts and training. So we will follow up on these ideas and hopefully we will be able to move forward with these together. I would like to ask Imam Majid and one of our religious leaders in Bangui to share a closing prayer with us. I have asked God Almighty to bring peace and tranquility to this beautiful country and to help all of you with the great effort that you are doing. I pray that the people of Central African Republic will enjoy peace and harmony and to guide all of us as the people of faith. To unite people's hearts and to overcome hatred and division. And to create a community that follows the teaching of the father Ibrahim of the people of faith. As had been mentioned, he welcomed the stranger, my God healed this country and made the neighbors work together to rebuild peace and tranquility in the public home. Thank you. We will pray. We would like to thank you Lord. We would like to thank you for what we would wish to call tonight an answer to the prayer of we believers. And to answer to satisfy the prayers of all the faiths in Central Africa which are reaching out to you. We would like to thank you Lord that in other parts of the world in other areas there are other people who are concerned and who are worried about our situation. And we believe that thanks to their prayers, our country, the Central African Republic will return to peace. And that there will be in the future a reconciliation of the hearts. We ask you to bless the United States, bless the government and also bless our communion. Thank you for that which belongs to you. In the name of Jesus we have prayed. Amen. Thank you again very much and to all the panelists and to everyone joining. And to all of our colleagues who helped to set up this discussion. And we hope to see you all again in the future soon. Thank you. Good evening. This program has been brought to you by Kinex.